Marion County

The former Marion County Center Township accountant who pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $340,000 also should pay the
cost of investigating his wrongdoing, the Indiana State Board of Accounts says.

Marion County Superior judge elections ruled unconstitutional this month should not proceed Nov. 4 as the current ballot is
drawn, according to court pleadings from candidates who were left out of the general election.

A federal judge in Indianapolis has ruled that the statute outlining how Marion Superior judges are elected is unconstitutional.
Because a stay has been issued, the ruling will not impact next month’s election.

A judge sentenced an Indianapolis man to 28 years in prison Monday for tricking teenage girls as young as 13 into sending
him explicit photos via Facebook and using the photos to coerce the girls into having sex with him.

The Marion County Sheriff’s Office will close the south public entrance to the Indianapolis City-County Building until
repairs can be made to a metal detector that has been out of commission for weeks.

A representative of Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard told Marion County judges Monday that the request for proposals the city
issued to three teams competing to design, finance and construct a criminal justice facility is not a document the public
can see.

Because the phrase “shall endeavor” should be read to mean one shall try, the Indiana Court of Appeals rejected
two Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers' arguments that they should have been promoted to captain. The
two claimed because they were former sheriff’s deputies, the consolidation of the sheriff’s and city police departments
in 2006 required their promotions to maintain proportional representation.